F5 followed by ESC got me a line of code to alter. Initially I changed the vga value from 791 to 788; that didn't help.

I then deleted everything except the initrd value and, after some output, that got me a command line as root. Preceding that was a message stating that the root block device could not be found. I tried the command 'shell' as suggested which resulted in a message along the lines "can't access tty, job control turned off." The other suggestion was 'q' which resulted in a message that there is no such command.

There was no 'kernel' value in the string of code I got to edit.

After each edit of the code, I pressed ENTER because I couldn't think of anything else to do.

Matte88 wrote:On default boot entry of Sabayon LiveDVD menu press the TAB key on you keyboard: this will let you modify the boot string. Ok, delete everything but the kernel part (sorry, I cannot explain you well 'cause I'm going from memory) and try booting.First of all you could set ide=nodma parameters.If no results, do little testing with these boot options

ender wrote:I then deleted everything except the initrd value and, after some output, that got me a command line as root. Preceding that was a message stating that the root block device could not be found. I tried the command 'shell' as suggested which resulted in a message along the lines "can't access tty, job control turned off." The other suggestion was 'q' which resulted in a message that there is no such command.